Derek Wood

Screenshot of a tweet from Joyce Carol Oates posted on Sunday, November 9th that reads "so curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates--scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. in fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. the poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

That’s a slap on the wrist

Well, everybody does mean her, too 🤷‍♂️

Not the best night to be heartened by the end of “Death By Lightning,” where Chet Arthur signs Civil Service Reform and spoils-system graft king Roscoe Conkling is run out of politics

And don’t whinge to me about “spoilers,” this is our fucking history

Senate Democrats are the only group of people in America that could look at the election results from *less than a week ago* and conclude, “Ah, what the people want now is for us to roll over and show our bellies to the reactionary creeps”

Well, we’ll never know now, will we?

An entire nation hinges on a generation quickly succumbing to old age.

Theory 1: Administration botching it badly, but the intent is to cause pain and suffering so people will blame Dems.
Theory 2: Causing pain and suffering to cater to strongest supporters, who like pain and suffering.
Theory 3: Administration just likes pain and suffering.

All plausible!

Maybe—just maybe—sports leagues getting in bed with gambling companies wasn’t such a hot idea…

It's impossible to build any more housing in America, but luckily we have the politically easy and physically effortless alternative of just removing a third of the population.

This clown is the GOP chair in Tarrant County, Texas, the third largest county in the state.

They panic about fertility rates, say families need to be having more children, then they starve the kids and ensure health insurance is impossible to afford. Plus all the other things that would dissuade people from having kids: houses impossible to buy, diminishing middle class, ICE everywhere.

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.

Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

YouTube video by RHINO The B-52's - Love Shack (Official Music Video)

I don’t have a lot of rules for life, but one is don’t trust anybody who sits still during “Love Shack”

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Right, cuz I’m sure both of these dudes are constantly turning down the advances of women that look like Sabrina Carpenter

That’s good, Donny. Go right on telling people that they’re not feeling the economic pinch that they are absolutely feeling every day

Trump is appealing the judicial order to pay full SNAP benefits by tomorrow.

He’s spending tax payer dollars going back to court to try and avoid giving folks money they are legally owed.

He’s starving 42 million people because to him they are leverage.

It’s enraging.

Oh God, that sounds terrible. People having full citizenship with actual representation? Like it’s an actual republic? That’s crazy talk. 🙄

I am terrified Mamdani is going to do something extreme, like subsidize a few grocery stores, says people who don’t bat an eye at for-profit companies with billion dollar subsidies.

He may not want to hear about it, but he’s goddamn well going to keep hearing about it. And when he continues to give answers like this about it, he and his minions will lose a lot more elections.

I’m not saying Nantucket is hoity-toity, but the public library there isn’t called tbe public library. It’s called the Nantucket Atheneum.

In case he forgets where it is?

Goddamnit

Okay, about as much fun as MY average dentist appointment

That was about as much fun as your average dentist appointment #COYS

I finally get to watch a whole game of my team, and I get a flaccid performance and a 1-0 home defeat to our crosstown rivals. 😖 what did I do to deserve this #COYS

It’s not that #Spurs have brought a knife to a gunfight. It’s more like we brought a butter knife to a knife fight. #COYS

Yeah, no creativity or edge on the attack. Injuries, I guess, in terms of Maddison for playmaking. Solanke is a goal scorer but not a creator

Look, I’m Spurs till I die, but it was a bad challenge. Lucky they didn’t send the ref to the VAR screen. We’re getting outplayed and I don’t like it

Bentancur lucky to still be on the pitch. #COYS